Editor’s Note: This article was produced in collaboration with the Arts & Culture MA concentration at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. As museums look at 3D scanning as a way to ...

3D scanning technology is being used to examine and replicate classic works of art. It's raising some ethical questions about what it means to preserve authenticity and democratize access in an age ...

In France during the mid-to-late 1800s, one could go into François Willème’s studio, sit for a photo session consisting of 24 cameras arranged in a circle around the subject, and in a matter of days ...

3D scanning is important because the ability to digitize awkward or troublesome shapes from the real world can really hit the spot. One can reconstruct objects by drawing them up in CAD, but when ...

As tempting as it may be, you can’t touch a painting in a museum. And now that many museums are closed, you’re even further from seeing the close-up detail in brush strokes that can tell you so much ...

Under the hood, LCC Scan uses 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) to generate photorealistic 3D representations of the real world.